‘매드아담’의 (포스트)휴먼 창조와 어머니의 부재: 마거릿 앳우드의 『오릭스와 크레이크』
MaddAddam’s (Post)human Creation and Absence of Mothers in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
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This article aims to study the (post)human creation of MaddAddam, a genius of genetic manipulation, and the resulting absence of mothers in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), the first novel of MaddAddam Trilogy. Unlike some radical feminists’ prospect that technology will liberate women from the body of reproduction, Atwood warns that misused reproductive technology can be a patriarchal medium for controlling women’s fertility. In Oryx and Crake, the omnipresent absence of mothers illuminates that MaddAddam’s creation of Children of Crake is meant to deprive women of their maternal status. As a matter of fact, in a multi-corporate society Compound, where all children are customized in laboratories, women are not allowed to be subjects of childbirth and mothering. For instance, two mothers—Oryx, the care-giver of the new hybrid human species and prostitute, and Sharon, the narrator Snowman’s mother and terrorist—were executed by MaddAddam(s), who schemed to monopolize the reproductive power. Moreover, a (post)modern mad scientist, Crake, programs the new women, Children of Oryx, as childbirth machines by manipulating their sexuality only to serve for reproduction. Through the speculative ‘Ustopia’ novel, Atwood asks her readers to rethink of the controversial alliance between women and technology.
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This article aims to study the (post)human creation of MaddAddam, a genius of genetic manipulation, and the resulting absence of mothers in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), the first novel of MaddAddam Trilogy. Unlike some radical feminists’ prospect that technology will liberate women from the body of reproduction, Atwood warns that misused reproductive technology can be a patriarchal medium for controlling women’s fertility. In Oryx and Crake, the omnipresent absence of mothers illuminates that MaddAddam’s creation of Children of Crake is meant to deprive women of their maternal status. As a matter of fact, in a multi-corporate society Compound, where all children are customized in laboratories, women are not allowed to be subjects of childbirth and mothering. For instance, two mothers—Oryx, the care-giver of the new hybrid human species and prostitute, and Sharon, the narrator Snowman’s mother and terrorist—were executed by MaddAddam(s), who schemed to monopolize the reproductive power. Moreover, a (post)modern mad scientist, Crake, programs the new women, Children of Oryx, as childbirth machines by manipulating their sexuality only to serve for reproduction. Through the speculative ‘Ustopia’ novel, Atwood asks her readers to rethink of the controversial alliance between women and technology.
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